To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Observercast

Insurance Anxiety

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH I’m lucky. Very lucky. There are a million things I wish I could do that I am absolutely terrible at. But there is one thing I am very, very good at, by necessity. I know how to fight with insurance companies. My sister, who was head of group claims for a major […]

Bernhardt Would Be Another Disaster At Interior

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BY FROMA HARROP Back in 2016, candidate Donald Trump said he opposed a Republican bill designed to grease the wholesale transfer of America’s public lands to states. “I don’t like the idea because I want to keep the lands great,” he told Field & Stream, “and you don’t know what the state is going to […]

Are The Racists On Viral Videos Mentally Ill?

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BY FROMA HARROP Most everyone who spends time on social media has come across videos in which a white person is screaming racial insults, usually at a Latino or African-American. A recent example shows a woman at a ShopRite in East Haven, CT, barraging a black man with racist invective. But look more closely at […]

It’s Not Socialism; It’s What People Want

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER “Socialism,” snarled Donald Trump at a recent pep rally of far-right Republicans. And the obedient crowd of faithful Trumpistas snarled back in unison: “So-shull-izz-ummm!” And there you have the entire intellectual content of the GOP’s 2020 re-election strategy under Generalissimo Trump – slap Democrats silly with a scurrilous campaign branding them as […]

Scant Economic Joy In Mudville

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BY FROMA HARROP The American people have been ordered to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the economic recovery. Note the lack of balloons, however, and that the marching bands have their feet up. President Donald Trump, of course, is a brass section unto himself. He’s been trumpeting the “Trump economy,” even though nearly eight of […]